Complex female genitalia indicate sperm dumping in armored goblin spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Oonopidae)

Zoology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-32

  Burger, Matthias ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Genital morphology; Oonopids; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPIDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; SPIDERS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; AVES; HEXAPODA; OONOPIDAE;

EID: 76449117072     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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